add_horizon function

Add missing values for future dates

add_horizon(data, horizon, accumulate = 1L, obs_column = "confirm", by = NULL)

Arguments

• data: Data frame with a date column. The other columns depend on the model that the data are to be used, e.g. estimate_infections() or estimate_secondary(). See the documentation there for the expected format.
• horizon: Deprecated; use forecast instead to specify the predictive horizon
• accumulate: The number of days to accumulate when generating posterior prediction, e.g. 7 for weekly accumulated forecasts. If this is not set an attempt will be made to detect the accumulation frequency in the data.
• obs_column: Character (default: "confirm"). If given, only the column specified here will be used for checking missingness. This is useful if using a data set that has multiple columns of hwich one of them corresponds to observations that are to be processed here.
• by: Character vector. Name(s) of any additional column(s) where data processing should be done separately for each value in the column. This is useful when using data representing e.g. multiple geographies. If NULL (default) no such grouping is done.

Returns

A data.table with missing values for future dates